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Like Ports itself, Cibani arrived on Seventh Avenue via a 12-year detour in China. She was 19 when she decided to join her elder sister Fiona, then a menswear designer, at a Canadian company called Ports International. The company had its heyday in the '70s and early '80s when its clothes were carried by stores like Bergdorf Goodman. But by 1989 the brand had lost some of its stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move...
...infused with Johansson's love of Old World glamour. "I'm sick of spending more time shopping for a T shirt that fits than for an evening gown," she said recently in New York City. "I'm designing this for contemporary, urban young women. I'm inspired by the '80s, when women were exercising with false eyelashes and things like that...
...blight becomes overwhelming. Sixty percent of the country is still without electricity, 80% without potable water. Unemployment hovers around 40%. The absence of credible police and consistent government services in rural areas has created vacuums that are being filled by an array of antigovernment forces: Islamists in the south, '80s-era warlords in the west and drug runners in the north. Meanwhile, the fighting between coalition troops and the Taliban has halted new reconstruction projects and undermined the impact of finished ones. Only half the aid pledged to the country since 2001 has been distributed, and violence has rendered...
...night in Maputo's train station, and nobody's going anywhere. And that's just the way they want it. On a flatbed train car, under the latticed arches designed by Gustave Eiffel, Ghorwane, a local band that have been fusing African rhythms with politics since the early '80s, are shaking up a cocktail of sweaty fans. It's buzzing, but it's not full - not everybody in Mozambique's capital can afford the $6 door fee at Sr Mfumo Jazz Bar (formerly Chez Rangel). Most people still get by on just $40 a month. It's been 10 years...
...helpful: after the initial trial, Andersen had collapsed and some 28,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs.) Similarly, Charles Keating, one of the biggest nabs in the 1980s savings and loan scandal, saw his conviction reversed nearly five years after going to prison. And after the late-'80s insider-trading Wall Street sweep that, among other things, sent Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky to prison, a number of convictions were overturned, including that of onetime Boesky associate John Mulheren. "When you're more aggressive, you're going to wind up with more losses," says Peter Henning, a law professor...